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working on EarthDancer by Marilyn Leavitt imblum and i'm having some problems with doing the dream catcher part. can someone help me ?? I would really appreciate it. thank you.

Received my box today. Am lovin at what I see. I was kind of worried but I had no need. I received a turquoise hoop in mine -not yellow. Yeah! Will use everything in it. It really is neat because what is in it, I would not have ordered for myself. I am happy. Thanks for coming up with some new ideas and projects. Peace. Pam

This is day one post-operation! Want all of you to know that I have prayed, cried, begged for pain relief for 42 years and 10 months! Yesterday, my miracle slid into the operating room at our little hospital. You should first understand that I can recall all of the trying of different therapies and the fact that they seemed to be torture because they never improved the pain and often made it worse. I find it very hard to believe that this went on for so very long. I am 72 now, 73 in two months and we celebrate our 44th anniversary later this month! I can dance (I hope). I feel a tremendous relief from this agonzing pain, the falling, the depression, the foot drop. When I woke up in the recovery room, DH was right there. He has been better, too! The doctor told him he removed all the bone spurs and other stuff that were pushing a vertebra into the spinal cord! He said he actually got to see the spinal cord moving back to where it belonged, all on its own. The neurosurgeon, the anesthesiologist, and the physician assistant visited me and I got to thank them! DH seemed to come out of his grumpiness of the last few months. He was, I believe, suffering with me and felt very hopeless. The night before surgery, he made Chicken Cordon Bleu, rice and apple tarts! Last night, home from recovery, I just wanted a bowl of cereal. Tonight, it was marinated broiled salmon, with sweet potato puffs! (They look like potato puffs). Most of all, I thank all of you for prayers, blessings, good wishes from this sisterhood and brotherhood of stitchers! All that made such a difference in lowering my fears and brightening my recovery. You are such amazing people. My deep pain is gone!! All it has left is incisional pain. Now I think I understand what being "knifed" in the back might be like. Again, my gratitude for all you have done. My spirit is lifted and it is a new life I look forward to!

I want to answer messages and make some posts, but bad weather is moving in and the internet comes and goes. Too many trees and ridges interfere. I am excited and touched by the welcome from the wonderful sisterhood of stitchers I have found here. I will definitely keep stitching, just doing little WIP now, not the beautiful projects I am seeing on the other posts. Must go while I still have internet. Lucky if I get a bar. Sounds like some of my new friends live in the country or mountains, so you know what I mean. Good night to all. Bless you for caring (I'm very emotional, sorry).

I wonder what is the size of each individual "coffee"? One of my son's sells coffee and perhaps these would make into clever coaster set.

Well I have finally finished the stitching on the first ornament on the plastic mesh and will do the back stitching later. Have now carried on with the second one I had started awhile ago and when I have finished that I will decide whether to change to 2 threads instead of 3 - will try it out first and then decide. Still waiting on the groom's mother to send me the details so that I can complete the second wedding sampler and post it over to Australia after framing. She moves at the speed of light - not!! Birth sampler is ready to stitch next month. We are smokin!!

I need a piece of cloth for a project that is quite large. The calculated piece should be 100 by 70 inches. Do you have something this large.

So both my parents have influenza A and I just got a common cold. So they are sleeping all the time and when they aren't sleeping they are watching Monk reruns. I have no one to visit with! I so want someone to talk to about anything and everything right now but have no one. I am going crazy here. I know I have been negative and whiney lately it just seems like nothing is going right. I also want out of the house. I had it all planned out I was going to get myself out of the house today. I was going to get up shower and going to my local bookstore and look at stitchy mags. Woke up to a half a foot of snow. I think God is punishing me somehow!

After years of living in the sunny South, I have had to move North to an isolated area. It is beautiful here, but sometimes lonely. After many years I have taken up cross stitching again. It is a challenge, but I think it is helpful to my emotional state. I had taken care of my mother for the last years of her life (my best champion always), and had even lost my little dog before I moved.I feel sad sometimes. I found this site and would love to hear and respond to other wonderful, kind and creative stitchers. Sincerely, Annie002

I thought I would add some eye candy since that wasn't a current pic of me and I didn't have one.